Are stakeholder agreements required for all high-speed and intercity passenger rail (IPR) grants awarded by FRA under the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) program?
No. FRA’s HSIPR program accepted applications and made awards though four different funding tracks (see FRA’s HSIPR Interim Program Guidance published in the Federal Register on June 23, 2009, 74 Fed. Reg. 29900, for a description of the four tracks). Tracks 1 and 2 are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA) and the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA). Tracks 3 and 4 are funded through the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts for FY 2008 and 2009. Track 1 and Track 2 projects involve most of the awards made under the HSIPR program and have the most detailed stakeholder agreement requirements, as described in greater detail below and in FRA’s HSIPR Interim Program Guidance. Certain Track 1 and Track 2 projects involve preliminary engineering or the completion of environmental documentation, and stakeholder agreements are not needed for these projects at this stage of project deve
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